[pianotech] Was high and outside now silent pitch lowering

paul bruesch paul at bruesch.net
Wed Oct 31 09:33:12 MDT 2012


Thanks for completely validating my tentativity and chickenness, Terry!!
 <g>

PB
SM

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>wrote:

> I've never attempted a blind overpull,
>
>
> CHICKEN!!!!!!!!  Boy, not me though. I've done it a couple of times - VERY
> fast and VERY easy.
>
> And then I spent a half-hour pulling in strings that ended up 50 cents off
> this way and that, etc., etc.  My attempts were disastrous. But hey, I
> tried it!  I just don't see how it would be possible to do a blind pitch
> raise and get everything within a couple cents - or even all within an
> average of a couple cents.  But then, there are lots of things I find
> difficult to do - very often just because I am not skilled at it. I dunno -
> maybe with practice. But even with practice, it just doesn't seem likely to
> come close enough. I'd really like to watch someone do a "good enough"
> 60-cent pitch raise blindly and have the piano ready for a good one-pass
> tuning (i.e. have the piano within a few cents of target for tuning pass).
> It would be very interesting.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
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